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Tuesday
November 11,1997 Vol. CXXXII, No. 52
Bibby now in control of team
After more than a year as head coach of the USC basketball team, Henry Bibby has established the law of the land for his players when it comes down to playing basketball for the Trojans.
Sports, page 20
Beauty schools let down their hair
There are places you can go to receive naircuts, facials and manicures at a bargain price. Staff Writer Jill Tierney finds the academies that allow their students to work on the public.
Diversions, page 10
When a 'family' member passes on
The Trojan Family has often been portrayed just as that — a family. But Editorial Columnist Evan Busch suggests that USC should adopt a plan to console families upon an alumnus' passing.
Viewpoint, page 4
F.Y.L
'God Wrestling/ Asian Americans
"God Wrestling," the ninth in a series of 10 Tuesday afternoon Genesis Conversation sessions, will be held from 4 to 5 p.m. today.
Discussion leaders for the session will be Michal Mor-Barak, a professor in the School of Social Work, and the Reverend Susan Craig from University Church.
The event will be held in Topping Student Center, room 204.
Refreshments will be provided.
For more information, call (213) 740-6110 or send e-mail to laemmle@mizar.usc.edu.
• ••
An informational session on what Asian American Studies has to offer will be held from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. tonight at GroundZero Coffeehouse. Free coffee will be provided
Attendees must RSVP to Asian Pacific American Student Services at (213) 740-4999 or send e-mail to apass@usc.edu.
Newspaper of the University of Southern California
Student Union revamp proposed
By Ben Berkowitz
Staff Wnter
Student Senate and the Office of Student Activities have started to work on a feasibility study for renovating, or possibly expanding, the Gwynn Wilson Student Union building.
The senate voted last Monday
night to initiate the study. Under the time table laid out by Dave Crandall, director of Student Activities, work on the study should be completed sometime in late May.
Maryann Sarraf, the Student Senate treasurer, said the 1995-96 senate allocated $26,000 for the study. The biggest portion of that money will go toward paying architects for conceptual designs. Students from the School of Architecture will also be used to help with conceptual
designs.
"There's a need and support for expanding a center for student educational life on campus," Crandall said.
The Association of College Unions International publishes a guidebook for student unions entitled "College Union Facilities." It shows that USC is lacking in space compared to other schools.
Bryant College in Rhode Island has only 3,000 students but 60,000 square feet of space. Northwestern University has
190.000 square feet of space for
10.000 students. Oklahoma State University has 339,000 square feet of space for 21,000 students.
Crandall said the Student Union building here is around
30.000 square feet. When combined with the Topping Student
Center, Commons, and the Pertusati University Bookstore, the total is 80,000 square feet. There are around 28,000 students on campus.
Out of that 80,000 square feet, only 2,000 sauare feet serve as office space for student organizations. There are 300 recognized student organizations on campus.
Part of the study will include visits, either in person or on video, to other student unions in California and Arizona. Those include UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara, UCLA, the University of San Diego, Cal State Long Beach, Cal State Northridge, Arizona State and the University of Arizona.
"Cal State Long Beach's union puts us to shame,'' Crandall said.
One concept that has been dis-
cussed is attaching the student union and the Topping Student Center, extending Topping all the way back to the Julie Kohl Band Center, possibly adding floors to Topping, and making Carl's Jr. an indoor facility.
After the study is completed, a report will be prepared and presented to the university.
"When we present that stuff to (the university), they'll say yeah, we're behind where we should be," Crandall said.
Students expressed mixed opinions on the idea of major renovations.
"I think it's a good idea. They're really cramped as it is," said Mike Evans, a freshman majoring in computer science.
"It just depends on what the consequences are," said Tamra Fernandes, a junior majoring in psychology.
Work-study has means to offer jobs campuswide
Work-Study
|MMt lo(S
By Greg Keraghosian
Staff Writer
Talking to two different students who participate in the Federal Work-Study Program can often mean two very different stories.
With thousands of jobs available on and around the USC campus, how work-study students end up in their job positions can be influenced by any number of means.
Some typical routes through which students find work-study jobs are the career center, on-campus job fairs, loblrakker and the Daily Trojan.
A more unofficial route is word-of-mouth, where students can pass along job impressions and reputations.
"1 used to know some guys who worked in (the School of) Architecture," said Christopher Munn, a senior majoring in political science and philosophy, who is a work-study at Heritage Hall. "They said that was lame,
just because it was so boring. I know a guy who works in the president's office. That's pretty cool, I suppose, because you get to work with the president and probably get a letter of recommendation from him if you work there long enough.
"It's like classes. The people who succeed in that kind of stuff, they go out and they look around. You definitely talk to vour friends and people you know in classes.”
For some, work-study is a halfway house between unemployment and a more permanent job. A case in point would be Aaron Whitt, an undeclared sophomore who works for Campus Cruisers, USC's escort service.
The job — which requires, among other things, no driving violations for two years and an age minimum of 18 — is Whitt's first work-study position.
"I've had better jobs and I've had worse,” said Whitt from behind the wheel during his shift. "My last job was at l^xus, so it's kind of a letdown fn>m that.”
(See Jobs, page 2)
Pratt calls for independent nation-state
By Christine Frey
Staff Writer
Geronimo Ji Jaga Pratt, a former member of the revolutionary Black Panther Party, spoke on such issues as racial unity and political liberation among African Americans to a crowd of more than 150 students and faculty at Bovard Auditorium Monday night.
Dressed in traditional African, Pratt lectured on "Black Politics in the New Millennium" and stressed the necessity of the African-American community to form a separate nation from that of the other racial groups in the United States.
"We don't want to enter the new millennium as anything but a free nation," Pratt said.
Pratt said ne believes that the United Nations should establish a plebiscite to allow African Americans the right to vote for a for-
mation of an independent nation and perhaps establish some sort of dual citizenship in the United States.
"For the first time ever people will vote for what they want," he said. "People have been yearning for sovereignty, to be free."
Pratt's own political affiliation with the Black Panther Party was rumored to have been a primary reason for his imprisonment 27 years ago, according to news reports. In 1970 he was arrested and charged with the 1968 murder of a schoolteacher in a robbery on a Santa Monica tennis court. Although Pratt was convicted and sentenced to 25-years-to-life in prison, he said he was innocent of the charges against him.
After serving 27 years in prison, Pratt's conviction was overturned in June because the prosecutors of his case neglected to inform the defense that the key witness
against Pratt was an infiltrator and paid informant for the FBI and police.
Pratt also said he believes that African Americans need to take control of their own lives.
"We want to call or our own shots. We have to call our own shots,” he said. "If we don't call our shots, we're not going to have a nation to call our own shots for — because they are killing us. The people who call our shots for us right now (are using) genocidal tactics, genocidal war against us in every way that you can imagine, and we cannot continue to let that happen."
However, Shakira Gagnier, a freshman majoring in international relations, said she thought Pratt did not specifically explain how ne would accomplish his goals.
(See Pratt, page 2)
The juice is loose
Angla Chan / Dally Tro|an Nantucket Nectars representatives Laura Gordon and Jeff Arsenault offer juice samples in the Commons lobby.

u
Tuesday
November 11,1997 Vol. CXXXII, No. 52
Bibby now in control of team
After more than a year as head coach of the USC basketball team, Henry Bibby has established the law of the land for his players when it comes down to playing basketball for the Trojans.
Sports, page 20
Beauty schools let down their hair
There are places you can go to receive naircuts, facials and manicures at a bargain price. Staff Writer Jill Tierney finds the academies that allow their students to work on the public.
Diversions, page 10
When a 'family' member passes on
The Trojan Family has often been portrayed just as that — a family. But Editorial Columnist Evan Busch suggests that USC should adopt a plan to console families upon an alumnus' passing.
Viewpoint, page 4
F.Y.L
'God Wrestling/ Asian Americans
"God Wrestling," the ninth in a series of 10 Tuesday afternoon Genesis Conversation sessions, will be held from 4 to 5 p.m. today.
Discussion leaders for the session will be Michal Mor-Barak, a professor in the School of Social Work, and the Reverend Susan Craig from University Church.
The event will be held in Topping Student Center, room 204.
Refreshments will be provided.
For more information, call (213) 740-6110 or send e-mail to laemmle@mizar.usc.edu.
• ••
An informational session on what Asian American Studies has to offer will be held from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. tonight at GroundZero Coffeehouse. Free coffee will be provided
Attendees must RSVP to Asian Pacific American Student Services at (213) 740-4999 or send e-mail to apass@usc.edu.
Newspaper of the University of Southern California
Student Union revamp proposed
By Ben Berkowitz
Staff Wnter
Student Senate and the Office of Student Activities have started to work on a feasibility study for renovating, or possibly expanding, the Gwynn Wilson Student Union building.
The senate voted last Monday
night to initiate the study. Under the time table laid out by Dave Crandall, director of Student Activities, work on the study should be completed sometime in late May.
Maryann Sarraf, the Student Senate treasurer, said the 1995-96 senate allocated $26,000 for the study. The biggest portion of that money will go toward paying architects for conceptual designs. Students from the School of Architecture will also be used to help with conceptual
designs.
"There's a need and support for expanding a center for student educational life on campus," Crandall said.
The Association of College Unions International publishes a guidebook for student unions entitled "College Union Facilities." It shows that USC is lacking in space compared to other schools.
Bryant College in Rhode Island has only 3,000 students but 60,000 square feet of space. Northwestern University has
190.000 square feet of space for
10.000 students. Oklahoma State University has 339,000 square feet of space for 21,000 students.
Crandall said the Student Union building here is around
30.000 square feet. When combined with the Topping Student
Center, Commons, and the Pertusati University Bookstore, the total is 80,000 square feet. There are around 28,000 students on campus.
Out of that 80,000 square feet, only 2,000 sauare feet serve as office space for student organizations. There are 300 recognized student organizations on campus.
Part of the study will include visits, either in person or on video, to other student unions in California and Arizona. Those include UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara, UCLA, the University of San Diego, Cal State Long Beach, Cal State Northridge, Arizona State and the University of Arizona.
"Cal State Long Beach's union puts us to shame,'' Crandall said.
One concept that has been dis-
cussed is attaching the student union and the Topping Student Center, extending Topping all the way back to the Julie Kohl Band Center, possibly adding floors to Topping, and making Carl's Jr. an indoor facility.
After the study is completed, a report will be prepared and presented to the university.
"When we present that stuff to (the university), they'll say yeah, we're behind where we should be," Crandall said.
Students expressed mixed opinions on the idea of major renovations.
"I think it's a good idea. They're really cramped as it is," said Mike Evans, a freshman majoring in computer science.
"It just depends on what the consequences are," said Tamra Fernandes, a junior majoring in psychology.
Work-study has means to offer jobs campuswide
Work-Study
|MMt lo(S
By Greg Keraghosian
Staff Writer
Talking to two different students who participate in the Federal Work-Study Program can often mean two very different stories.
With thousands of jobs available on and around the USC campus, how work-study students end up in their job positions can be influenced by any number of means.
Some typical routes through which students find work-study jobs are the career center, on-campus job fairs, loblrakker and the Daily Trojan.
A more unofficial route is word-of-mouth, where students can pass along job impressions and reputations.
"1 used to know some guys who worked in (the School of) Architecture," said Christopher Munn, a senior majoring in political science and philosophy, who is a work-study at Heritage Hall. "They said that was lame,
just because it was so boring. I know a guy who works in the president's office. That's pretty cool, I suppose, because you get to work with the president and probably get a letter of recommendation from him if you work there long enough.
"It's like classes. The people who succeed in that kind of stuff, they go out and they look around. You definitely talk to vour friends and people you know in classes.”
For some, work-study is a halfway house between unemployment and a more permanent job. A case in point would be Aaron Whitt, an undeclared sophomore who works for Campus Cruisers, USC's escort service.
The job — which requires, among other things, no driving violations for two years and an age minimum of 18 — is Whitt's first work-study position.
"I've had better jobs and I've had worse,” said Whitt from behind the wheel during his shift. "My last job was at l^xus, so it's kind of a letdown fn>m that.”
(See Jobs, page 2)
Pratt calls for independent nation-state
By Christine Frey
Staff Writer
Geronimo Ji Jaga Pratt, a former member of the revolutionary Black Panther Party, spoke on such issues as racial unity and political liberation among African Americans to a crowd of more than 150 students and faculty at Bovard Auditorium Monday night.
Dressed in traditional African, Pratt lectured on "Black Politics in the New Millennium" and stressed the necessity of the African-American community to form a separate nation from that of the other racial groups in the United States.
"We don't want to enter the new millennium as anything but a free nation," Pratt said.
Pratt said ne believes that the United Nations should establish a plebiscite to allow African Americans the right to vote for a for-
mation of an independent nation and perhaps establish some sort of dual citizenship in the United States.
"For the first time ever people will vote for what they want," he said. "People have been yearning for sovereignty, to be free."
Pratt's own political affiliation with the Black Panther Party was rumored to have been a primary reason for his imprisonment 27 years ago, according to news reports. In 1970 he was arrested and charged with the 1968 murder of a schoolteacher in a robbery on a Santa Monica tennis court. Although Pratt was convicted and sentenced to 25-years-to-life in prison, he said he was innocent of the charges against him.
After serving 27 years in prison, Pratt's conviction was overturned in June because the prosecutors of his case neglected to inform the defense that the key witness
against Pratt was an infiltrator and paid informant for the FBI and police.
Pratt also said he believes that African Americans need to take control of their own lives.
"We want to call or our own shots. We have to call our own shots,” he said. "If we don't call our shots, we're not going to have a nation to call our own shots for — because they are killing us. The people who call our shots for us right now (are using) genocidal tactics, genocidal war against us in every way that you can imagine, and we cannot continue to let that happen."
However, Shakira Gagnier, a freshman majoring in international relations, said she thought Pratt did not specifically explain how ne would accomplish his goals.
(See Pratt, page 2)
The juice is loose
Angla Chan / Dally Tro|an Nantucket Nectars representatives Laura Gordon and Jeff Arsenault offer juice samples in the Commons lobby.